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  1. black angel

    Iran-Contra, a second Watergate

    so these days Watergate is a house hold word, "gate" is a suffix for every scandal and upset in politics, but Iran-Contra is largely forgotten, even though Cabinet members ended up convicted and others served time, is there any way that Iran-Contra could have been as big as Watergate, destroyed...
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    could the American Revolution have failed in 1781?

    so I just finished Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy's great book "The Men Who Lost America" and in talking about 1781 he brought up that the Congress was totally broke in 1781, as were the states, that their paper money was viewed as worth less than "oak leafs" (i.e. toilet paper) Virginia was so...
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    Would the CSA become black majority?

    what it says on the tin, in 1865 Mississippi and South Carolina were already slave majority (55% and 57%) while Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana all had slave populations over 40% (45%, 44%, 44% and 47%) this doesn't cover any free black populations, any ways with-out freedom and the...
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    WI: the US goes after Hezbollah after 9/11

    now after 9/11 the US declared war on terror and every one who supported terror starting of course with Al-Qaeda and its supporters, so Al-Qaeda's most deadly attack before 9/11 was the 1998 bombing of the US embassy bombings for which Al-Qaeda received support and training and the bombs...
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    Stalin shoots himself June 1941?

    Joseph Stalin was caught totally off guard by Hitler's 1941 invasion of the USSR, we thought that Stalin was out of action for 3 days at his dacha, drinking heavily and dreading what he was sure was his coming arrest by the other leaders of the Soviet Russia (or the military), new evidence hints...
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    King Edward VIII married to Grand Duchess Olga

    when they were both quite young then Prince Edward (David to the family) and the first born child of Tsar Nicholas II were matched off by family circles most of all Queen Victoria who hoped her favorite grandchild's (the Tsaritsa) child married to an heir to the throne, now that never got off...
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    DBWI: Nixon goes to China

    So I read a article about the extremely closed off and isolationist Communist China on the mainland, by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in it he stated that his former boss President Nixon really wanted to travel to China, but with the death of Zhou Enlai in 1969 closed any opening on...
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    quack quack

    :o well I messed up
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    Post-WWII West German dictatorship/one-party state

    is it posable with a POD after the end of the War, with out a war between the allies and the Soviets for West Germany to become a dictatorship or a one-party state?
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    Cambodian Genocide. how long? how much? how far?

    between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge murdered, tortured or worked to death 25% of Cambodia's population, in 1978 due to the Khmer Rouge's aggression the Vietnamese invaded and overthrew the genocidal Pol Pot, but what if the Khmer Rouge hadn't attacked Ba Chúc and murdered 3,000 Vietnamese...
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    AHC: Make Prince Philip King of Greece

    so, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece (and Denmark) who was fourth son of King George I of Greece, so is there a way that this British raised Prince could become King of Greece? bounce points if its after his marriage to Elizabeth
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    Nazi occupied Britain's most likely Monarch

    now now I know I know, Sea-lion etc etc leaving that all aside, what were the Nazi's plans for the Monarchy, no doubt the Royal family would leave if the UK fell, to Canada, so would they leave the post empty, like Franco did or the Greek Colonels, with what ever fascist leader as regent...
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    Jeju, Korea's Taiwan?

    so in September 1950 North Korean Forces had pushed South Korea into a tiny pocket in the far south-east of the peninsula, now by that Time the US and the UN were in the war and soon pushed North Korea as far back as the North had pushed the South, but what if the Soviets hadn't sat out the UN...
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    WI one of the Queen's sons was gay?

    my question is, what would have happened if Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, or Prince Edward had been born gay? when (if ever) would they have come out? would Charles or Andrew (if it was one of them) avoided marrying? married earlier (in the case of Charles who was 33 when he married in OTL) if...
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    Wales votes down devolution in 1997?

    in 1979 Wales voted down a National Assembly by 79.7%, another one was put to a vote in 1997, Yes pulled out a win by 50.3% to 49.7%, 0.3% what if that 0.6% went the other way so Wales voted down devolution in 1997 50.3% No to 49.7%?
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    Rump South Vietnam?

    so as South Vietnam fell apart the Ford Administration and US military believed that after the fall of Buon Me Thuot, a massive infusion of US money ($722,000,000) and maybe limited US troops to hold a rump Republican of Vietnam below the 13th Parallel, the American public was against sending...
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    Vice-President Reagan 1968

    in 1968 late in the game California Governor Ronald Reagan put his name into consideration at the Republican National Convention, getting strong support from Southern Conservatives, Nixon had to go on bended knee to Senator Strom Thurmond to help keep the south in line and save him from a...
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    Nixon Duck Hooks North Vietnam

    In 1969 the Nixon team thought about using nuclear weapons against military and economic targets in and around Hanoi, the mining of Haiphong harbor and bombing of the borders in November 1969 they ditched Duck Hook, starting in 1965 the USAF started talking about bombing the Red River Valley...
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    Ford Picks Barry Goldwater for VP in 1974

    many Republican conservatives wanted President Ford to pick Goldwater for his Vice-President in 1974, by 1974 the derided radical of 1964 was seen as something of an elder states man, so what if Vice-President Goldwater?
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    Nixon Picks George H. W. Bush for Vice-President

    so I'm reading Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" and they're talking about Nixon talking the Southern delegates around to his side in 1968, as part of this he let Strom Thurmond draw up his short list for VP, under "Acceptable" was George H. W. Bush so here's the question, what happens if Nixon...
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